Essays about: "Placelessness"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 11 essays containing the word Placelessness.

  1. 6. Sense of place in a changing small town

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

    Author : Mattias Petersson; [2020]
    Keywords : Sense of place; spirit of place; production of space; architecture; placelessness; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Changes in the landscape may affect our relation to specific places. In an increasingly globalized world with a global culture where planners and developers try to attract to the common and the average human, places run the risk of losing their unique characteristics. READ MORE

  3. 7. Engaging with Interconnected Place for a Hopeful Future: Discussing the potential that place attachment has for encouraging pro-environmental behaviour in an interconnected world

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Humanekologi; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

    Author : Elizabeth Kozowyk; [2016]
    Keywords : place attachment; place; identity; interconnectedness; pro-environmental behaviour; human ecology; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Using primary research from majority-Western respondents in conjunction with an array of multi-disciplinary secondary literature, this thesis acts as a response to claims of the overwhelming existence of ‘placelessness’ in our modernised and globalised world. Instead, it suggests that place attachment is alive and well in the West. READ MORE

  4. 8. Lost in place : on place theory and landscape architecture

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Lovisa Kjerrgren; [2015]
    Keywords : landscape architecture; place; sense of place; genius loci; place identity; place experience; space; site; non-place; placelessness; assemblage;

    Abstract : Place is on the one hand a commonsense everyday word with diversely connotative meanings, and on the other a contested concept with different interpretations across a broad range of academic disciplines and discourses. This thesis researches theories of place and their implications for the theory and design practice of landscape architecture. READ MORE

  5. 9. The Achilles heel of the EU's Renewable Energy Directive sustainability criteria : the policy on biofuel and its limitation to understanding sustainability

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Anna-Lena Klassen; [2014]
    Keywords : dominance of GHG accounting; sustainability criteria; Renewable Energy Directive; biofuels; sustainability science; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Within the Renewable Energy Directive, the European Union has embedded sustainability criteria, addressing sustainable biofuels. Due to criticism, the sustainability criteria have been re-examined by the EU in the light of Indirect Land Use Change (ILUC). READ MORE

  6. 10. Odefinierade rum i bebyggd miljö : en begreppsstudie

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Kristin Träff; [2012]
    Keywords : Loose Space; Lost Space; Margin; Non-Place; Overskudslandskaber; Placelessness; Post-It City; Terrain Vague; Urban Wildscape;

    Abstract : Syftet med studien är att presentera olika begrepp med definitioner för odefinierade rum i bebyggd miljö. Rum som blivit över eller bortglömda i stadsplanering, övergivna och förfallna områden eller rum som saknar en känsla av identitet. Olika författare med olika bakgrund presenterar olika begrepp och definitioner för dessa rum. READ MORE